List of cruisers of France
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Unprotected cruisers
[edit]- Circé (1860)
- Cosmao class
- Armorique (1862)
- Talisman (1862)
- Flore (1869)
- Limier class
- Limier (1866)
- Hamelin (1866)
- Volta (1867)
- L'Hermitte (1867)
- D'Estrées (1867)
- Châteaurenault (1868)
- Linois (1867)
- Infernet class
- Infernet (1871)
- Dupetit-Thouars (1874)
- Champlain (1872)
- La Clocheterie (1872)
- Sané class
- Bourayne class
- Bourayne (1869)
- Segond (1869)
- Dayot (1869)
- Ducouëdic (1869)
- Kersaint (1869)
- Vaudreuil (1870)
- Hugon (1872)
- Beautemps-Beaupré (1872)
- Duchaffault (1872)
- Kerguelen (1872)
- Hirondelle (1869)
- Rigault de Genouilly class
- Rigault de Genouilly (1876)
- Éclaireur (1877)
- Duquesne class
- Duguay-Trouin (1877)
- Lapérouse class
- Lapérouse (1877) – wrecked 1898
- D'Estaing (1879)
- Nielly (1880)
- Primauguet (1882)
- Villars class
- Iphigénie (1881) - struck 1901
- Naïade (1881)
- Aréthuse (1882)
- Dubourdieu (1884)
- Milan (1885)
Torpedo cruisers
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- Condor class
- Wattignies class
- Wattignies (1891)
- Fleurus (1893)
- D'Iberville class
- D'Iberville (1892)
- Cassini (1894)
- Casabianca (1895)
Protected cruisers
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- Sfax (1884) – struck 1906
- Tage (1886) – struck 1910
- Amiral Cécille (1888) – scrapped 1919
- Davout (1889) – struck 1910
- Suchet (1893) – struck 1906
- Forbin class
- Troude class
- Jean Bart class
- Alger (1889) – hulked 1911
- Friant class
- Friant (1893) – struck 1920
- Chasseloup-Laubat (1893)
- Bugeaud (1893) – struck 1907
- Linois class
- Descartes class
- D'Assas class
- Catinat class
- D'Entrecasteaux (1896) - sold to Poland 1927; struck 1942
- Guichen (1897) – struck 1922
- Châteaurenault (1898) – sunk 1917
- D'Estrées class
- Jurien de la Gravière (1899) – struck 1922
Armoured cruisers
[edit]- Dupuy de Lôme (1890)
- Amiral Charner class
- Amiral Charner (1893) – sunk by torpedo 1916
- Bruix (1894) – scrapped in 1920
- Chanzy (1894) – wrecked 1907
- Latouche-Tréville (1892) – scrapped 1926
- Pothuau (1895) – scrapped 1929
- Jeanne d'Arc (1899) – scrapped 1934
- Gueydon class
- Gueydon (1899) – sunk 1944
- Montcalm (1900) – scrapped 1943
- Dupetit-Thouars (1901) – sunk by torpedo 1918
- Dupleix class
- Dupleix (1900) – scrapped 1922
- Desaix (1901) – scrapped 1927
- Kléber (1902) – sunk by mine 1917
- Gloire class
- Gloire (1900)
- Marseillaise (1900)
- Sully (1901) – sunk 1905
- Condé (1902)
- Amiral Aube (1902)
- Léon Gambetta class
- Léon Gambetta (1901) – torpedoed 1915
- Jules Ferry (1903) – struck 1927
- Victor Hugo (1904) – scrapped 1930
- Jules Michelet (1905)
- Ernest Renan (1906) – struck 1931
- Edgar Quinet class
- Edgar Quinet (1907) – struck 1930
- Waldeck-Rousseau (1908) – destroyed 1943
Light cruisers
[edit]- La Motte-Picquet class (1912) – (ten planned but not ordered)
- Mulhouse (1920) – struck 1933
- Metz (1920)
- Colmar (1920)
- Strasbourg (1920)
- Thionville (1920)
- Duguay-Trouin class[1]
- Duguay-Trouin (1923) – scrapped 1952[2]
- La Motte-Picquet (1924) – sunk 12 January 1945[2]
- Primauguet (1924) – burnt out after Naval Battle of Casablanca, 8 November 1942.[3]
- Jeanne d'Arc (1930)[4] – scrapped 1966[5]
- Émile Bertin (1933)[6] – struck 1959[7]
- La Galissonnière class[8]
- La Galissonnière (1933) – scuttled 27 November 1942, salvaged by Italian Navy in 1943 as FR 12, sunk by bombing 18 August 1944.[9]
- Jean de Vienne (1935)– scuttled 27 November 1942, salvaged by Italian Navy in 1943 as FR 11, wrecked by bombing 24 November 1943.[9]
- Marseillaise (1935) – scuttled 27 November 1942.[9]
- Gloire (1935) – scrapped 1958[10]
- Montcalm (1933) – hulked 1958 and scrapped 1970[5]
- Georges Leygues (1936) – scrapped 1959[10]
- De Grasse class[11]
- Châteaurenault (1948) – scrapped 1979
- Guichen (1948) – scrapped 1982
- Colbert (1956) – scrapped 2016
Heavy cruisers
[edit]- Duquesne class
- Suffren class
- Suffren (1927) – scrapped 1974
- Colbert (1928) – scuttled 1942
- Foch (1929) – scuttled 1942, scrapped 1943
- Dupleix (1930) – scuttled 1942
- Algérie (1932) – scuttled 1942
- Saint-Louis class (1939) – (six planned but not ordered)
- Saint-Louis
- Henri IV
- Charlemagne
- Brennus
- Charles Martel
- Vercingetorix
Helicopter cruisers
[edit]- Jeanne d'Arc (1961) – decommissioned 2010
Notes and references
[edit]- ^ Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 30
- ^ a b Whitley 1999, p. 27
- ^ Whitley 1999, pp. 27, 29
- ^ Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 93
- ^ a b Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 224
- ^ Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 99
- ^ Whitley 1999, p. 40
- ^ Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 124
- ^ a b c Whitley 1999, pp. 43, 45
- ^ a b Whitley 1999, p. 43
- ^ Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 147
- ^ Whitley 1999, p. 47
- ^ a b Jordan & Moulin 2013, p. 146
- Jordan, John; Moulin, Jean (2013). French Cruisers 1922 – 1956. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84832-133-5.
- Whitley, M. J. (1999). Cruisers of World War Two: An International Encyclopedia. London: Brockhampton Press. ISBN 1-86019-8740.